This Is Where

The wind howls 'cross the ice floes Send the frozen snow skimming A river on a river hardened over It doesn't know the way it's going Is it north or south or westward It just glides across the shoreline 'til it's over You came for me in fast forward On a claim for something ordered A way through and past the history that held you I'd tell my own story through you Tell it loud to never lose you A moth caught be the flame it could cannot measure And there we go again, wishing something bolder Trying to push and pull inside this moment Trying to mold this life within our hands This is where the whole world keeps on turning This is where we come undone...undone Will they measure me by branches Count the rings and take my ashes Mark the ground where I fell and carry on Or will we bite against the silence Fill our days with noise and violence Not recognize our hearts when we are done There we'll go again wishing something bolder Trying to push and pull inside this moment Trying to mold this life within our hands This is where the whole world keeps on turning This is where we come undone We don't know where it's going Is it north or south or westward It just glides across the shoreline 'til it's over --- This Is Where - The Wailin' Jennys